By Smaktakula

No, "P-O-L-I-O."--We Didn't Mean To Get Your Hopes Up Like That, But One Crisis At A Time.

The World Health Organization announced recently that a new polio vaccine could soon eradicate the childhood scourge. This is great news for people in countries afflicted by outbreaks of polio, but terrible news for the rest of the world, who believed the disease wiped out fifty years ago.

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Rotary International has been trying to finally eradicate this for many years. The biggest problem they have had is that the last countries where this is epidemic are so fearful for their lives because of war that they trust nobody – especially someone that would potentially poison them. Big deal about the new vaccine. The old vaccines have worked – it’s a matter of getting it in the people that need it.